EAR

More Performance per Watt for HPC & AI Data Centers

38% more throughput or 25% lower energy costs.

EAR (Energy Aware Runtime) is a smart energy management system that solves the power bottleneck of HPC and AI data centers in real time.

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Unlock More Performance Per Watt

As HPC and AI workloads grow, so does their energy demand. Data centers need smarter tools to gain efficiency, not just more hardware. EAR monitors, analyzes and dynamically optimizes your infrastructure in real time, connecting workloads, servers and cooling systems to gain energy you didn't know you had.

Our tools and features helps you unlock stranded capacity and is designed to achieve your goals:

EAR Job & System Analytics

• Power, Energy, CO2, Temperature at system and job level.
• CPU and GPU Performance metrics
• Hints for better resource utilization

EAR Optimizer

• Reduce Electricity Bill, OPEX, TCO and CO2.
• Increase Performance per Watt, up to 50% of energy gains
• Report energy saved and potential energy savings

EAR Smart Power Cap

• Maintain DC power/energy within a given limit.
• Maximize Performance under a power limit
• Eliminate power peaks

Turn Your Efficiency
Into a Competitive Advantage

Designed for AI factories and HPC data centers, EAR helps you:

☑️ Maximize throughput
☑️ Cut energy waste
☑️ Improve resource utilization
☑️ Get more work from existing hardware

How EAR Works

Designed for AI factories and HPC data centers, EAR helps you:

Holistic Monitoring: CPU, GPU, I/O, memory, cooling

Data Telemetry and analysis

Automatic Optimization: Up to 20% better performance per watt

Energy Hints & Manual Tuning: Reach up to a total of 50% energy savings

Smart Power Capping: Prevent overloads and power spikes

Visual Dashboards: Track energy and performance KPIs

Trusted by Industry Leaders

LRZ
SuperMUC-NG

Reducing peak power from 3 MW to 2 MW with minimal performance loss on one of Europe’s most efficient supercomputers.

SURF
Snellius

Partnering to explore software-driven energy efficiency for hybrid AI/HPC systems.

BSC
MareNostrum 5

Optimizing energy usage on a 314 PFlops pre-exascale system across CPU and GPU partitions.

EDF
CRONOS

Gaining visibility and control of energy use by project, code, and user across 2 MW of internal HPC compute.

Backed by Experts

EAR is a technological spin-off created jointly by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

As part of the Barcelona deep-tech ecosystem, we operate with ties to the UPC’s technology transfer and entrepreneurship divisions.

Our technology originated from years of computer science research at BSC and UPC and has been deployed on major European supercomputers.

Trusted by
Leading HPC Centers

EAR: In Conversation

A series of conversations with EAR leaders about HPC, energy efficiency, and the future of AI infrastructure

Ep. 1: The next AI race will be an energy race
Ep. 2: Performance per watt explained simply

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